Ash-pan.



M. S. GORDON] ASH PAN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1-6. 1921.

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To all whom it may concern:

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r-sidiug at .1 abaunsce, Ct llll new 1 "lit-lull relates to ash pans, '1he object of the invention is to provide an ash pan for use in cookingor heating st in similar connections where it is impossible to insert anash pan which will wholly occupy the ash pit. It is well known that anash pan seldom occupies the whole horizontal area of an ash pit, andthat the ashes, therefore, will collect around the sides of the pitbetween the latter and the walls of the ash pit. It is a particularlydisagreeable operation to remove an ash pan under these circumstanceswhen the latter is full to running over. It is, therefore, intended toprovide consruction, in simple and practical form, which will permit theready removal or insertion of the pan, and also pro vide for thereception of all of the ashes which may fall into the ash pit.

Also, in this connection, it is the object of the invention to providean improved form of operating device for the ash receiving bafiles,which are employed to direct the ashes into the pan, the operatingmechanism also constituting a lifting means to be associated with theusual grate shaker.

.Vith the above objects in view, and such others relating to the detailsof construction,v as may hereinafter appear, my invention will now befully set forth and described, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings:

In the drawings: Figure l is an end view of the ash pan embodying myinvention,

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-8 of Fig.1, and Fig. i is a sectional view showing the manner of using a grateshaker to lift the pan.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the ash pan ofa usual rectangular formation, along whose longitudinal edges are hingedthe deflecting plates Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

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or wings 2. Fivoted upon the front end of the pan 1, is a pair of rocklevers 3, each of the levers 3 being provided with an intermediatejournal whichis mounted upon a bearing stub 5 which projects from theface of the end wall of the pan. The upper ends of the rock levers 3 areover-turned so as to project across and ride against the outer surfaceof the wings 2, the guide loops 6 carried by said wings inclosing theends of the rock levers, so as to direct the movement of the wings. Theopposite ends of the rock levers cross one another adjacent the lowerportion of the end wall of the pan, and at their crossing points areinclosed by a vertical housing which is carried by the end wall. Saidhousing is provided with a vertical slot 8 which coincides with the pathof movement of the crossing points of the rock levers 3, and operativein said guide slot is a block 9 which has a rearward projection whichalso operates in intersecting slots formed in the rock levers, so thatvertical movement of the block 9 in the slot 8 will cause theoscillation of the rock levers, which in turn open or close the wings 2,according to the direction of movement of the block. The forward end ofthe block projects beyond the slot 8 in a lug 10 which is adapted tocooperate with a pair of lugs 11 projected from the face of the guide orhousing 7 on opposite sides of the slot 8. Thus, when the block 9 iscarried to the bottom of the slot 8, thereby closing the wings 2 overthepan, the lug 10 lies below the lugs 11, the distance being so arrangedthat when the head of a stove shaker 12 is borne upon the upper side ofthe lug 10, the tongs or prongs 13 thereof, will be engaged below thelugs 11, the result being to lock the wings in their closed position andto permit the lifting of the pan from the stove while the wings are inthis state. Obviously, as soon as shaker 12 is disengaged from the lugs10 and 11, the block 9 may be shoved upwardly to open the wing so thatthe latter may fall outside the vertical limits of'the sides of the pan.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that I have provideda very simple and practicable device for the cleanly and efficientremoval of ashes from a stove, the provision of a suitable means forhandling the pan, answering a requirement in devices of this characterwhich has heretofore been missing.

What I claim as my invention is 1. An ash pan, comprising incombination, a receptacle, a cover section hinged on the longitudinaledges of the receptacle, rock levers mounted upon the end of thereceptacle and operatively engaging the cover sections to open and closethe latter as the levers are rocked, the ends of the levers beingover-lapped and having slots formed therein, a housing carried by theend of the receptacle and over-lying the over-lapping ends of the rocklevers, said housing having a vertical slot formed therein, a blockslidable in said housing and having a lug ex tending through saidvertical slot, said block also having a pin extending through the slotsin said over-lapping ends, and a pair of lugs formed upon the housing tocooperate With the projecting lug of the block to permit the operativeengagement of a stove shaker therewith for lifting the receptacle.

2. An ash pan, comprising in combination, a receptacle, hinged coversections on the receptacle crossing toward the middle thereof, rocklevers pivoted upon the end of the receptacle and operatively engagedWith the said cover sections, the ends of said levers over-lapping, ahousing on the end of the receptacle in closing the over-lapping ends ofthe rock levers, means operative in said housing for connecting saidoperative ends to operate simultaneously as the block is verticallymoved and lugs carried by the housing and said block for the operativeengagement of a stove shaker to lock the cover sections and to lift thepan.

In testimony whereof, I aliix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

Mes. MARY S. GORDON. itnesses HENRY WV. HEINE, RUDOLPH F. POHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents Washington, I). G.

